THE PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME IN AFRICA
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The international community
is seeking a new strategy to revitalize
rural development. A basic element
of the strategy is already clear:
people's participation.
Future development efforts must aim at
releasing the energies of rural people
and guaranteeing that they share fully
in the fruits of their efforts.
This can only be achieved by enabling
the poor to take charge of their lives,
to make full use of resources
and to manage their own activities.
This report describes a participatory
development methodology pioneered since 1982 by the FAO
People's Participation Programme (PPP). FAO believes that
the grassroots approach described here could energize a vast
reservoir of human resources, providing developing countries
with a key to generating rural employment, achieving
food self-sufficiency, slowing the rural-urban exodus
and building national self-reliance.
Re-printed from the FAO newsletter, Rural Development No. 12.
Text abridged from Participation in practice: lessons from the
FAO People's Participation Programme (FAO, 1990).
For further information contact: Chief, FAO/ESHA,
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy